The Big D-Word
That’s right…divorce. Did you know nearly half of all marriages in the United States will end in divorce (according to DivorceRate.org)? Here are a few more eye-opening divorce statistics:
- Approximately 66% of all divorced couples do not have children (DivorceRate.org)
- Massachusetts has the lowest divorce rate, with 2.4 per 1,000 persons, while Nevada has the highest at 9.1 per 1,000 (DivorceStatistics.org).
- Maryland is one of just a few states (including Florida and Minnesota) that has laws that offers incentives (e.g. reduced license fees) for couples who participate in premarital counseling (Maryland divorce lawyer).
- The average length of a marriage that ends in divorce is seven to eight years (OnlineLawyerSource.com).
- Couples whose parents divorced are nearly twice as likely to get divorced as people whose parents are still married (OnlineLawyerSource.com).
Interesting statistics. I don’t know what percentage of couples have children (I would guess more than half) but it’s interesting that 66% of divorced couples do not. I guess one of the reasons might be that (as the stats show) most divorces are couples that are in the reletively early stages of their marriage so haven’t had children yet. Most are likely to be after less than 7 or 8 years as one divorce after 50 years would bring the average of a divorce after 2 years up.